Motor plow or tiller.



H. BAUCHET.

MOTOR PLOW 0R TILLER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 6. I9Ia.

1,282,025. Patented OCI. 22,1918.

INVENTOR /7', a/ufc/e m fK/FM' ATTORNEY HY BAUCHET, 0F SENS, FLQCE.

MOTOR, PLO'W OE TELLER.

Specication of Letters Patent.-

l atented Got. 22, lg.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY BAUCHET, a citizen ot' the French Republic, residing at No. 63 Rue Chambertrand, Sens, Department of Yonne, F rance, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Motor Plows or Tillers, of which the following is a specification.

ln the construction of motor plows, attention must be paid to two essential requirements which are generally expressed by agriculturalists, more particularly those farming their lands on the intensive system. These twoessential requirements are:

l. The driver must be situated at the rear of the plowing apparatus in order that he may be able to have the work done by the latter under his constant observation.

2. lThe machine must have double cr re-4 versible ploivshares, that is to say, plowshares which will tiri-n up the soil alternately in both directions, for instance to the right on going forward and to the left on returning, so that a furrow 'can be started immediately at each ciid ot the field. It is well known that this method of plowing known as straight or flat plowing, greatly facilitates the subsequent work of the harvesting machines and avoids the loss of time consumed in turning the plow around which is experienced when employing single plows.

Some motor plows as hitherto constructed satisfy one or the other of the two aforesaid' requirements. The present invention has for its'object to provide an improved motor plow or tiller which will satisfy both requirements.

The characteristic feature of the improved motor plow consists substantially in the manner in which the plowing apparatus or tilling apparatus is connected t tractor.

ln order that the driver shall be situated V at the rear of the plowing or tilling apparatus, the said plowing or tillingl apparatus is mounted by means of a collar or collars or other suitable devices 0n a tubular 'ame protecting vsheath for 'the control rods leading to the engine and for the transmitting' parts. l

This tubular frame constitutes also the y.airis around which the reversible plowshares or tilling tools are reversed when'it o thg. motor is desired to reverse the turning-up direction of the soil at the end of the furrow. Owing to the fact that the controls are located inside the said tubular frame, their position remains unaltered whatever may be the position of the plowing or tilling apparatus relatively to the said frame.

The driver being situated at the rear of the plowing apparatus, is therefore able to appreciate at all times the resistances opposed to the operation of the machine and is thus able at all times to adapt the power of the engine and also the speed of advance of the machine to the work to be done.

He is also able at all times to regulate the steering of the machine.

The control connections being located inside the tubular frame, are thus sheltered from dust and shock.

Moreover, by this invention the frame of the plow or tiller is of simple and rigid construction and allows of the plowing or tilling apparatus or tools being employed in any desired manner according to the work to be done without entailing any lmodicayt,

tion either in the said frame or inthe control connections.

n embodiment of this invention is illustrated by \va \v of eXaniple'in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figi1i'e..lis a side elevation of the inipiovediiiotor plow. the left hand driving wheel being removed.

Fig. 2 is a pian thereof.

l is the engine mounted on the iran'iing 2, balanced on the two drivingwheels il. The framing .2 is rigidly connected to a tubular `traine 4 that carries the plowing apparatus. The engine l 1ii'ovided with a clutch 5 drives the driving wheels 3 through a change speed gear 6, a speed-reducing gear inclosed in the casing 'Land chains S.

For the purpose of balancing the machine, the framing 2 is adapted to be moved forward or backwardin guides 9, whereby it is suspended from the axle 3.

The tubular frame 4 is fixed to a casing 7 or it may be cast in one piece therewith.

which serves as a tool holder and also as ag. l2`is a tube slipped over the tubular frame 4. This tube l2 carries two reversible sets of plowshares 13, 13, and 14, la that are fixed rigidly to the tube 12 by 'means of stays 15. Fig. 2 only shows the portion 13 and 14 ofthe two reversible sets of plow-` ing apparatus ina position of rest.

asV

wiieiein the plowing o1" tiliog apparatus is fawn by a moto? tactoi", the combination of a tabula-f frame adapted to be drawn oy said mctoi tractor, a drivers seat located at the rca? of said tubular frame, a plow ing or tiliing apparatus carried by Said tubular frame in front of sai drivers seat, controis for controlling the operation of said motor tractor, iccated Within reach of said drives seat, and connections leading from said comtois to said motor tractor, ic-

ear cmi of the tubular 'ame 4I; is ed by a stceing Wheel i6 'which can ateby the diivei by means ci" die ,the trave ci the machine, and th Y. This scefing wheel is povidcci zeig t of the tubular "frame t the end of the iamc ae fixed arms i8 caying seat 19 foi the drive?.

mechassm, though the medium of rods a fd inside the tubular frame hat im iszw sclcw or rack to allow of adjusting xated inside sait` tubular frame.

in a motor plow or tiiier of the type Whesein' the plowing or tiiling apparatus is dawn by a moto? tractor, the combination o a tubular frame adapted to be fawn bj; said motoi` tractor, a dlivers seat 1oc'ated at the fear of said tubular frame, a reversible piowing or tiiiing apparatus reversible about said tubular frame on a bearing theieon in front of said drvers seat, controls for contoiling the operation of said motor tractor, located Within Teach of said drivers seat, and connections vleading fom said controls to said motor tractor, i0- cate inside said beating on saict` tubular milie.

'la testimony Wheeot if have signed immo to this specification. Y,

@ENKEY @Mics si?. 

